Sentences with phrase «social mobility problem»

«Today's findings, in particular the worrying fact that the high proportion of privately educated judges has barely changed since the 1980s, warns us that there is still a big social mobility problem within the legal sector.

When it came to explaining why there was a social mobility problem in the legal profession, respondents who think something is preventing candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds from getting law training contracts revealed that a large barrier is their presentation at interview — respondents allocated almost a quarter (23 %) of their votes to this.

The report concluded that Britain has a deep social mobility problem which is getting worse for an entire generation of young people.

The report concludes that «Britain has a deep social mobility problem which is getting worse for an entire generation of young people».

The report reads: «There is no evidence that reforming school structures, either by continuing the roll out of the academies programme or by introducing new grammar schools, by itself will provide an answer to England's entrenched social mobility problem.

The Social Mobility Commission's State of the Nation report last year showed that «Britain's deep social mobility problem, for this generation of young people in particular, is getting worse not better.»

Not exact matches

Part of the problem with social mobility in Britain is that some people believe they are common and should stay in their place.

We are insufficiently motivated to deal with the problems we face with social mobility.

Child poverty, social mobility, youth unemployment, basic literacy and crime are still unsolved problems.

In this way we can help solve the twin problems of increasing the number of qualified professionals while shrinking the social mobility and income gaps that threaten to upend our economies and the nature of our social systems.

Amy Lalla, director of Let Me Play, said: «The decision is entirely at odds with David Cameron's professed aim to increase social mobility and tackle entrenched social problems.

Fairer outcomes remained an «entrenched» problem, she said, at an event promoting social mobility.

«I'm hard - edged about it,» Ratcliffe says, «On the pure numbers, people think social mobility is a massive abstract problem.

One of his acolytes, Fraser Nelson, tweeted just this week «shame that the most articulate voices for social mobility aren't as angry about schools, where the real problem lies.»

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, delivering his State of the State address along with a budget proposal heavy on infrastructure, laid out an ambitious social agenda on Wednesday that focuses on problems not so easily solved with cash: the erosion of confidence in the criminal justice system, public schools and teachers that he said were failing students, and a creeping sense that economic mobility is not what it once was.

In this way we can help solve the twin problems of increasing the number of qualified professionals while shrinking the social mobility and income gaps that threaten to upend our economies and the nature of our social systems.

Education Secretary Justine Greening has recently appointed Sir Kevan Collins, CEO of the Education Endowment Foundation, as the «evidence champion» who will ensure that decisions on the problem of social mobility are based on rigorous and trustworthy evidence rather than hunches.

Dogs are social animals and wish to be with their family, but if they are unable to dog so because of mobility problems, they may suffer the effects of isolation.

«Today, the Commission has taken another important step towards fighting work - related cancer and other relevant health problems on the work floor,» commented Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, Skills and Labour Mobility, Marianne Thyssen.

This attendance gap is well recognised in the literature and exists in spite of targeted interventions that span a number of decades.30 This significant gap has been attributed to several factors, including greater family mobility, social and cultural reasons for absence, the higher rate of emotional and behavioural problems in Aboriginal children, the intergenerational legacy of past practices of exclusion of Aboriginal children from schools, and its impact on shaping family and community values regarding the importance of attending school in Indigenous families compared with non-Indigenous families.6 7 31 Additional socioeconomic and school factors differed slightly between the Indigenous and non-Indigenous cohorts.

Adolescent mental health and behavioural problems, and intergenerational social mobility: A decomposition of health selection effects.

Once again in sharp contrast, there is no consistent pattern of childhood physical health problems affecting social mobility.